Acute eosinophilic pneumonia.

Abstract

We report the case of an 18-year-old woman who presented to an outside hospital in respiratory distress and was found to have pulmonary eosinophilia. She remained profoundly hypoxaemic despite maximal ventilatory strategies and underwent cannulation for veno-venous extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). The respiratory failure improved with time, using corticosteroids, and the veno-venous ECMO helped in stabilisation of the patient in the setting of profound hypoxaemia.

• Authors: Bindu Akkanti, Brandon Gentry, Ramesh Kesavan, Biswajit Kar
• Journal: BMJ case reports (BMJ Case Rep) Vol. 2016 (Feb 18 2016) ISSN: 1757-790X [Electronic] England
• PMID: 26891699 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
• Copyright: 2016 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

Chemical References

• Adrenal Cortex Hormones

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adrenal Cortex Hormones (therapeutic use)
• Eosinophils (metabolism)
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
• Female
• Humans
• Hypoxia (etiology)
• Pulmonary Eosinophilia (complications, diagnosis, pathology, therapy)
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome (diagnosis, etiology, pathology, therapy)
• Respiratory Insufficiency (diagnosis, etiology, pathology, therapy)